Martin Krzywdzinski
Biographic Data
| ID | 305077 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Martin Krzywdzinski |
| GIVEN NAMES | Martin |
| FAMILY NAME | Krzywdzinski |
| SIGNATURE | KRZYWDZINSKI M |
| AFFILIATIONS | WZB Berlin Social Science Center |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3927-6616 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 51 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
How team organization influences the ability to solve automation failures: An experimental study on human–AI decision-making in teams
As production environments become increasingly automated and AI-assisted, managing automation failures is a growing challenge. This study examines how team organization—hierarchical versus self-managed—affects team performance in resolving such failures. Using a laboratory experiment simulating a realistic industrial setting, teams operated automated machinery supported by AI-based assistance. We hypothesize that communication mediates the relati…
Hybride Erwerbskonstellationen und berufliche Entwicklungsmöglichkeiten im IT-Crowdwork
Es ist umstritten, inwieweit Crowdwork-Plattformen Lernprozesse und berufliche Entwicklung ermöglichen. Der Artikel trägt zur Lösung dieser Kontroverse bei, indem er auf einen spezifischen Tätigkeitsbereich fokussiert und IT-Crowdwork auf Freelancing- und Crowdtesting-Plattformen in Deutschland untersucht. Die zentralen Fragen sind, wie Crowdworker:innen digitale Plattformarbeit mit anderen Erwerbstätigkeiten kombinieren und Crowdwork für die ber…
An uncertain elite: Professional differences and similarities between engineers and tech workers in times of digital transformation
The digital transformation of industries has given rise to new categories of tech workers, such as software engineers and UX/UI designers, who now work alongside traditional engineers. This study explores the evolving relationship between these groups, focusing on work processes, status perceptions and professional interactions. The research questions addressed include: how has digitalisation affected these two groups’ work processes? what strate…
Between control and participation: The politics of algorithmic management
Understanding the role of human management is crucial for the debate over algorithmic management—to date limited to studies on the platform economy. This qualitative case study in logistics reconstructs the actor constellations (managers, engineers, data scientists and workers) and negotiation processes in different phases of algorithmic management. It offers two major contributions to the literature: (1) a process model distinguishing three phas…
Künstliche Intelligenz und gesellschaftliche Machtverhältnisse: Michael Heinlein / Norbert Huchler (Hrsg.), Künstliche Intelligenz, Mensch und Gesellschaft: Soziale Dynamiken und gesellschaftliche Fol…
Themenessay, Besprechung von: Michael Heinlein / Norbert Huchler (Hrsg.), Künstliche Intelligenz, Mensch und Gesellschaft: Soziale Dynamiken und gesellschaftliche Folgen einer Innovation. Wiesbaden: Springer VS 2024, 530 S., 59,99 € ; Hartmut Hirsch-Kreinsen, Das Versprechen der Künstlichen Intelligenz: Gesellschaftliche Dynamik einer Schlüsseltechnologie. Frankfurt am Main/New York: Campus 2023, 300 S., 35,00 €; James Muldoon / Mark Graham / Cal…
Control and Flexibility: The Use of Wearable Devices in Capital- and Labor-Intensive Work Processes
The use of wearables in the workplace allows for close monitoring of work processes and might also have consequences for work content and skill requirements. Past research has emphasized the detrimental effects of wearables, particularly those caused by the standardization of work and monitoring of workers. By contrast, this study asks under what conditions the implementation of wearables as part of digital assistance systems is beneficial for wo…
Promoting human-centred AI in the workplace. Trade unions and their strategies for regulating the use of AI in Germany
The use of artificial intelligence (AI) is changing the world of work. For trade unions, the issue of how to regulate the use of AI is a central but difficult topic because the technology is still at an early stage and experience on its use limited. Focusing on Germany, this article addresses the following questions: (1) what areas of application and use cases for AI are relevant for trade unions and works councils?, (2) what role do trade union …
Remote Work: New Fields and Challenges for Labor Activism
The COVID-19 pandemic has altered how and when we work. Suddenly, organizations had to grant the possibility of working from home to all employees whose presence on-site was not necessary, independent of rank and job. In light of this experience, a return to permanent presence in the office for all has become unlikely. As remote work has both positive and negative implications for employees, their organizations, and workplace institutions, this c…
Rezensentinnen und Rezensenten des 1. Heftes 2022
Klaus-Peter Buss / Martin Kuhlmann / Marliese Weißmann / Harald Wolf / Birgit Apitzsch (Hrsg.), Digitalisierung und Arbeit: Triebkräfte – Arbeitsfolgen – Regulierung. Frankfurt a. M. / New York: Campu…
und Harald Wolf auf die Motivation und die Kernthesen des
Emerging positions of German firms in the industrial internet of things: A global technological ecosystem perspective
The industrial internet of things (IIoT) has created entirely new inter-firm competitive and collaborative dynamics that focus on the supply of digital infrastructures, services and platforms for industrial users. These dynamics typically involve machinery builders, information technology suppliers and traditional technology buyers from various asset-intensive sectors. Given the global character of IIoT technology, transnationally relevant inter-…
Digital transformation and value chains: Introduction
New digital technologies based on the internet of things and artificial intelligence play centre stage in contemporary discussions about the prospects for economic development and the future of work. This article summarizes theoretical and empirical contributions on how these technologies affect global value chains (GVCs). We argue that the leading paradigms that analyse global production - the GVC framework and the related global production netw…
Between automation and gamification: Forms of labour control on crowdwork platforms
Algorithmic management is a core concept to analyse labour control on online labour platforms. It runs the risk, however, of oversimplifying the existing variety and complexity of control forms. In order to provide a basis for further research, this article develops a typology of labour control forms within crowdwork and discusses how they influence perceptions of working conditions. It identifies the two most relevant forms of labour control in …
Skill formation, automation and governance: Comparing German and Korean automotive manufacturers in Central-Eastern Europe
Purpose Building on neo-institutionalism models of the transfer of human resource management (HRM) practices within multinational companies, this paper aims to analyze the transfer of skill formation concepts using the cases of two automotive OEMs in Slovakia. The purpose of the paper is twofold. First, it aims to explain the differences between the two multinationals. Second, it builds on the empirical analysis to reconsider the neo-institutiona…
Response to Reviews of New Worlds of Work
The New Digital Workplace
Automation, skill requirements and labour‐use strategies: High‐wage and low‐wage approaches to high‐tech manufacturing in the automotive industry
In light of debates about advanced manufacturing and concepts like Industrie 4.0, this article compares labour‐use strategies in highly automated automotive supplier plants in a high‐wage country (Germany) and a low‐wage region (Central Eastern Europe). It shows considerable differences regarding skill requirements on the shop floor and the use of precarious employment contracts and examines three potential factors that explain them: national ins…
Do investors avoid strong trade unions and labour regulation? Social dumping in the European automotive and chemical industries
The eastern enlargement of the European Union has prompted heated debates about social dumping related to labour standards and industrial relations. Capital mobility is seen as a crucial social dumping mechanism. The article uses time-series-cross-section data for the years 1999–2008 to analyse the determinants of capital flows (FDI) to European countries. It compares German and US FDI in the automotive and chemical industry. The article shows th…
Work models in the Central Eastern European car industry: Towards the high road?
The integration of the Central Eastern European (CEE) countries into the European Union (EU) has provoked debates about the danger of a ‘race to the bottom’ in Europe caused by the low wages and weak labour regulation and labour standards in CEE. This article examines the evolution of work models in the CEE automotive industry. It argues that the work models in CEE did not take the low‐road trajectory. Rather, a limited high‐road model emerged in…
Changing East–West Division of Labour in the European Automotive Industry
The article deals with the impact of the emerging new division of labour between Western and Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) on work and employment, both in the Western and CEE countries. Major points of discussion will be the hypothesis of a `hollowingout' of the Western European auto industry, and the hypothesis of a `regime flight'; that is, the claim that companies use CEE locations to escape the collectively regulated work models of Western…
Arbeits- und Sozialpolitik in Polen
Ist Polen das trojanische Pferd einer deregulierten Arbeitspolitik und einer geringen sozialen Sicherung in der Europäischen Union? Martin Krzywdzinski untersucht mit netzwerkanalytischen Methoden die politischen Entscheidungsprozesse sowie den Wandel der Interessen- und Kräftekonstellation im Politikfeld Arbeit und Soziales in Polen seit 1989.
Arbeits- und Sozialpolitik in Polen: Interessenvermittlung und Politischer Tausch in Einem Umkämpften Politikfeld
Interessenvermittlung in den mittelosteuropäischen Transformationsstaaten: Arbeits- und Sozialpolitik in Polen
Arbeits- und Sozialpolitik in Polen: Interessenvermittlung und politischer Tausch in einem umkämpften Politikfeld
III. Literaturbesprechungen
Changing East–West Division of Labour in the European Automotive Industry
The article deals with the impact of the emerging new division of labour between Western and Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) on work and employment, both in the Western and CEE countries. Major points of discussion will be the hypothesis of a `hollowingout' of the Western European auto industry, and the hypothesis of a `regime flight'; that is, the claim that companies use CEE locations to escape the collectively regulated work models of Western…
Automation, skill requirements and labour‐use strategies: High‐wage and low‐wage approaches to high‐tech manufacturing in the automotive industry
In light of debates about advanced manufacturing and concepts like Industrie 4.0, this article compares labour‐use strategies in highly automated automotive supplier plants in a high‐wage country (Germany) and a low‐wage region (Central Eastern Europe). It shows considerable differences regarding skill requirements on the shop floor and the use of precarious employment contracts and examines three potential factors that explain them: national ins…
Between control and participation: The politics of algorithmic management
Understanding the role of human management is crucial for the debate over algorithmic management—to date limited to studies on the platform economy. This qualitative case study in logistics reconstructs the actor constellations (managers, engineers, data scientists and workers) and negotiation processes in different phases of algorithmic management. It offers two major contributions to the literature: (1) a process model distinguishing three phas…
Digital transformation and value chains: Introduction
New digital technologies based on the internet of things and artificial intelligence play centre stage in contemporary discussions about the prospects for economic development and the future of work. This article summarizes theoretical and empirical contributions on how these technologies affect global value chains (GVCs). We argue that the leading paradigms that analyse global production - the GVC framework and the related global production netw…
Remote Work: New Fields and Challenges for Labor Activism
The COVID-19 pandemic has altered how and when we work. Suddenly, organizations had to grant the possibility of working from home to all employees whose presence on-site was not necessary, independent of rank and job. In light of this experience, a return to permanent presence in the office for all has become unlikely. As remote work has both positive and negative implications for employees, their organizations, and workplace institutions, this c…
Control and Flexibility: The Use of Wearable Devices in Capital- and Labor-Intensive Work Processes
The use of wearables in the workplace allows for close monitoring of work processes and might also have consequences for work content and skill requirements. Past research has emphasized the detrimental effects of wearables, particularly those caused by the standardization of work and monitoring of workers. By contrast, this study asks under what conditions the implementation of wearables as part of digital assistance systems is beneficial for wo…
Emerging positions of German firms in the industrial internet of things: A global technological ecosystem perspective
The industrial internet of things (IIoT) has created entirely new inter-firm competitive and collaborative dynamics that focus on the supply of digital infrastructures, services and platforms for industrial users. These dynamics typically involve machinery builders, information technology suppliers and traditional technology buyers from various asset-intensive sectors. Given the global character of IIoT technology, transnationally relevant inter-…
Do investors avoid strong trade unions and labour regulation? Social dumping in the European automotive and chemical industries
The eastern enlargement of the European Union has prompted heated debates about social dumping related to labour standards and industrial relations. Capital mobility is seen as a crucial social dumping mechanism. The article uses time-series-cross-section data for the years 1999–2008 to analyse the determinants of capital flows (FDI) to European countries. It compares German and US FDI in the automotive and chemical industry. The article shows th…
Interessenvermittlung in den mittelosteuropäischen Transformationsstaaten: Arbeits- und Sozialpolitik in Polen
Die Entwicklung der Klassengesellschaft in Polen: Was bedeuten Klassen in der Transformation
III. Literaturbesprechungen
Arbeits- und Sozialpolitik in Polen: Interessenvermittlung und politischer Tausch in einem umkämpften Politikfeld
Arbeits- und Sozialpolitik in Polen
Ist Polen das trojanische Pferd einer deregulierten Arbeitspolitik und einer geringen sozialen Sicherung in der Europäischen Union? Martin Krzywdzinski untersucht mit netzwerkanalytischen Methoden die politischen Entscheidungsprozesse sowie den Wandel der Interessen- und Kräftekonstellation im Politikfeld Arbeit und Soziales in Polen seit 1989.
Arbeits- und Sozialpolitik in Polen: Interessenvermittlung und Politischer Tausch in Einem Umkämpften Politikfeld
Interessenvermittlung in den mittelosteuropäischen Transformationsstaaten: Arbeits- und Sozialpolitik in Polen
Work models in the Central Eastern European car industry: Towards the high road?
The integration of the Central Eastern European (CEE) countries into the European Union (EU) has provoked debates about the danger of a ‘race to the bottom’ in Europe caused by the low wages and weak labour regulation and labour standards in CEE. This article examines the evolution of work models in the CEE automotive industry. It argues that the work models in CEE did not take the low‐road trajectory. Rather, a limited high‐road model emerged in…
Changing East–West Division of Labour in the European Automotive Industry
The article deals with the impact of the emerging new division of labour between Western and Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) on work and employment, both in the Western and CEE countries. Major points of discussion will be the hypothesis of a `hollowingout' of the Western European auto industry, and the hypothesis of a `regime flight'; that is, the claim that companies use CEE locations to escape the collectively regulated work models of Western…
Do investors avoid strong trade unions and labour regulation? Social dumping in the European automotive and chemical industries
The eastern enlargement of the European Union has prompted heated debates about social dumping related to labour standards and industrial relations. Capital mobility is seen as a crucial social dumping mechanism. The article uses time-series-cross-section data for the years 1999–2008 to analyse the determinants of capital flows (FDI) to European countries. It compares German and US FDI in the automotive and chemical industry. The article shows th…
The New Digital Workplace
Automation, skill requirements and labour‐use strategies: High‐wage and low‐wage approaches to high‐tech manufacturing in the automotive industry
In light of debates about advanced manufacturing and concepts like Industrie 4.0, this article compares labour‐use strategies in highly automated automotive supplier plants in a high‐wage country (Germany) and a low‐wage region (Central Eastern Europe). It shows considerable differences regarding skill requirements on the shop floor and the use of precarious employment contracts and examines three potential factors that explain them: national ins…
Response to Reviews of New Worlds of Work
Skill formation, automation and governance: Comparing German and Korean automotive manufacturers in Central-Eastern Europe
Purpose Building on neo-institutionalism models of the transfer of human resource management (HRM) practices within multinational companies, this paper aims to analyze the transfer of skill formation concepts using the cases of two automotive OEMs in Slovakia. The purpose of the paper is twofold. First, it aims to explain the differences between the two multinationals. Second, it builds on the empirical analysis to reconsider the neo-institutiona…
Between automation and gamification: Forms of labour control on crowdwork platforms
Algorithmic management is a core concept to analyse labour control on online labour platforms. It runs the risk, however, of oversimplifying the existing variety and complexity of control forms. In order to provide a basis for further research, this article develops a typology of labour control forms within crowdwork and discusses how they influence perceptions of working conditions. It identifies the two most relevant forms of labour control in …
Rezensentinnen und Rezensenten des 1. Heftes 2022
Klaus-Peter Buss / Martin Kuhlmann / Marliese Weißmann / Harald Wolf / Birgit Apitzsch (Hrsg.), Digitalisierung und Arbeit: Triebkräfte – Arbeitsfolgen – Regulierung. Frankfurt a. M. / New York: Campu…
und Harald Wolf auf die Motivation und die Kernthesen des
Emerging positions of German firms in the industrial internet of things: A global technological ecosystem perspective
The industrial internet of things (IIoT) has created entirely new inter-firm competitive and collaborative dynamics that focus on the supply of digital infrastructures, services and platforms for industrial users. These dynamics typically involve machinery builders, information technology suppliers and traditional technology buyers from various asset-intensive sectors. Given the global character of IIoT technology, transnationally relevant inter-…
Digital transformation and value chains: Introduction
New digital technologies based on the internet of things and artificial intelligence play centre stage in contemporary discussions about the prospects for economic development and the future of work. This article summarizes theoretical and empirical contributions on how these technologies affect global value chains (GVCs). We argue that the leading paradigms that analyse global production - the GVC framework and the related global production netw…
Promoting human-centred AI in the workplace. Trade unions and their strategies for regulating the use of AI in Germany
The use of artificial intelligence (AI) is changing the world of work. For trade unions, the issue of how to regulate the use of AI is a central but difficult topic because the technology is still at an early stage and experience on its use limited. Focusing on Germany, this article addresses the following questions: (1) what areas of application and use cases for AI are relevant for trade unions and works councils?, (2) what role do trade union …
Remote Work: New Fields and Challenges for Labor Activism
The COVID-19 pandemic has altered how and when we work. Suddenly, organizations had to grant the possibility of working from home to all employees whose presence on-site was not necessary, independent of rank and job. In light of this experience, a return to permanent presence in the office for all has become unlikely. As remote work has both positive and negative implications for employees, their organizations, and workplace institutions, this c…
Control and Flexibility: The Use of Wearable Devices in Capital- and Labor-Intensive Work Processes
The use of wearables in the workplace allows for close monitoring of work processes and might also have consequences for work content and skill requirements. Past research has emphasized the detrimental effects of wearables, particularly those caused by the standardization of work and monitoring of workers. By contrast, this study asks under what conditions the implementation of wearables as part of digital assistance systems is beneficial for wo…
An uncertain elite: Professional differences and similarities between engineers and tech workers in times of digital transformation
The digital transformation of industries has given rise to new categories of tech workers, such as software engineers and UX/UI designers, who now work alongside traditional engineers. This study explores the evolving relationship between these groups, focusing on work processes, status perceptions and professional interactions. The research questions addressed include: how has digitalisation affected these two groups’ work processes? what strate…
Between control and participation: The politics of algorithmic management
Understanding the role of human management is crucial for the debate over algorithmic management—to date limited to studies on the platform economy. This qualitative case study in logistics reconstructs the actor constellations (managers, engineers, data scientists and workers) and negotiation processes in different phases of algorithmic management. It offers two major contributions to the literature: (1) a process model distinguishing three phas…
Künstliche Intelligenz und gesellschaftliche Machtverhältnisse: Michael Heinlein / Norbert Huchler (Hrsg.), Künstliche Intelligenz, Mensch und Gesellschaft: Soziale Dynamiken und gesellschaftliche Fol…
Themenessay, Besprechung von: Michael Heinlein / Norbert Huchler (Hrsg.), Künstliche Intelligenz, Mensch und Gesellschaft: Soziale Dynamiken und gesellschaftliche Folgen einer Innovation. Wiesbaden: Springer VS 2024, 530 S., 59,99 € ; Hartmut Hirsch-Kreinsen, Das Versprechen der Künstlichen Intelligenz: Gesellschaftliche Dynamik einer Schlüsseltechnologie. Frankfurt am Main/New York: Campus 2023, 300 S., 35,00 €; James Muldoon / Mark Graham / Cal…
How team organization influences the ability to solve automation failures: An experimental study on human–AI decision-making in teams
As production environments become increasingly automated and AI-assisted, managing automation failures is a growing challenge. This study examines how team organization—hierarchical versus self-managed—affects team performance in resolving such failures. Using a laboratory experiment simulating a realistic industrial setting, teams operated automated machinery supported by AI-based assistance. We hypothesize that communication mediates the relati…
Political science (12 works) · Computer Science (11 works) · Economics (10 works) · Engineering (10 works) · Business (9 works) · Digital Economy and Work Transformation (9 works) · Labor Movements and Unions (8 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Automotive industry (5 works)